Summer and I went up to the lake today in the afternoon from 1 to around 5pm. It was a beautiful day, the water is very clear 10 visibility in places, and the shad are up in the marina cove and other areas of the lake. <BR>We started out in the marina cove and I had high hopes but we didn't have any luck or even see any bass. I was trying a new toy, the 7" stocker trout and it looked great but I didn't have any followers or bites. So we moved to another area and I changed to the 7" MS Slammer. Couple casts later an easy 5 comes blasting out of this tree and almost eats it but veered away at the boat. Working down the bank I had 2 more smaller fish do the same thing. So I switched back to the stocker trout and connected with a nice one at 3lbs 9oz. Same spot I see a BEAST in this tree come loafing out to look at my bait but didn't get more than 5 feet from it. The fish was 8 or 9 pounds, a real toad for Margarita. We crusied around some more and I picked up another one about 2 and 3/4 before heading down to ye olde Jackass canyon. We worked the whole cove and finally I'm cranking the stocker in and I see a toad behind it. Instead of keeping on reeling in I killed it and the fish inhaled the whole bait, a nice 5lb 6oz'er. Had one more follow up from another pig but it didn't get close either. That was about it for the day. <BR>Sidenote - I see people, now that it's springtime, in the backs of the coves with bass on stringers. GET A LIFE AND GO EAT A HAMBURGER. <P>Here's the photography.<P>The nice one<BR><img src="http://www.calfishing.com/images/daily_reports/4_8_00_rob_5_6_stocker.jpg"><P>The 3 and a half<BR><img src="http://www.calfishing.com/images/daily_reports/4_8_00_rob_3_9.jpg"><P>The smaller one<BR><img src="http://www.calfishing.com/images/daily_reports/4_8_00_rob2_5_stocker.jpg">